Over in this thread, it came to light that Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge on June 3. “It was [also] the third of June” when Neil Diamond’s character lost his virginity to Desiree, a woman twice his age.
Earth Wind & Fire’s September asks us to remember the 21st day of that month.
Others? I’ll settle for months too, or holidays other than Christmas.
U2’s Pride (In the Name of Love) mentions April 4.
“I Just Called to Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder mentions the following dates and months:
New Year’s Day
April
June (specifically, Saturday within)
July
August
Libra (the range between 9/24 and 10/23)
First of Spring (3/21)
Halloween
“Now the first of December was covered with snow” – Sweet Baby James by James Taylor.
It was the 3rd of September
That day I’ll always remember (yes I will)
'Cause that was the day
That my daddy died
Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone - The Temptations
“December 1963” by the Four Seasons. Oh, what a night.
Love the thread concept!
All I can contribute offhand is the earth-shattering revelation in Robert Mitchum’s Ballad of Thunder Road that:
I celebrate that date every year along with the Third of June (which I almost always follow with “another sleepy dusty delta day” for emphasis).
NB: I have always wondered if Mitchum was just pulling our legs on that date reference, as if that never really took place. April Fool and all that. The truly curious can find an audio link with Mitchum “singing” the song from his movie.
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
For purposes of this thread, do months alone count (“it’s hard to hold a candle in the cold November Rain”), month/year (“late september back in '63”), or do we need both month and day (“Guess who cried come First of May”)?
4th of July - X
*What ever happened I
apologize
So dry your tears and baby
walk outside
It’s the Fourth of July *
One of my favorite songs in the history of songs. Shame it never broke out, as it is very radio-friendly.
Free game. I’m not a clock blocker.
Black day in July
Black day in July
In the streets of motor city is a deadly silent sound
And the body of a dead youth lies stretched upon the ground
Upon the filthy pavement
No reason can be found
Another Gordon Lightfoot gem.
Not in any song, but Elton John did have an album titled 11/17/70 (17/11/70 in the UK).
John Lennon’s Remember mentions the 5th of November (Guy Fawkes Day).
For months, there’s Kurt Weill’s September Song, which mentions several other months, too (May, November, and December, it seems).
Sublime’s April 26, 1992. It’s about the Rodney King riots.
If we’re just counting months, I can knock them all off.
Stars Calendar Girl
“Tear Me Down” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch: August 13, 1961
“Prologue” from Little Shop of Horrors: September 23 of “an early year of a decade not too long before our own”
A not-very-good song by Harry Chapin, “We Were Three”, mentions “March 21st / The first day of Spring.”
Don’t look it up. It’s not worth your time. (And I like Harry a lot.)
The Band’s The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down mentions a date:
Simon and Garfunkel’s April Come She Will mentions 6 months.
Don MacLean’s American Pie - “February made me shiver”
Billy Joel’s Scenes from an Italian Restaurant - “When they decided the wedding would be at the end of July”